{"id":135078,"date":"2010-01-04T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-one-chart-that-says-everything-about-our-healthcare-problem-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-04T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:30:00","slug":"the-one-chart-that-says-everything-about-our-healthcare-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135078","title":{"rendered":"The One Chart That Says Everything* About Our Healthcare Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2010\/01\/healthcare-spending-and-life-expectancy.html\">FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a> Andrew Gelman posts this chart chart plotting per-capital healthcare expenditure against standard of living.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b41d0560000000000af99d6&amp;maxX=546&amp;maxY=468\" border=\"0\" alt=\"healthcare\" width=\"546\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems to show, without a doubt, that those awesome Western Europeans and East Asians get way more bang for their buck than we do.<\/p>\n<p>Except&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t tell us anything about how well the European system would work if the people there lived the unhealthy lifestyle of so many Americans. And it doesn&#8217;t say anything about how the outcomes of individuals with specific ailments (like cancer). And it doesn&#8217;t take into account the greater diversity of our population.<\/p>\n<p>But other than that, it&#8217;s pretty damning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-one-chart-that-says-everything-about-our-healthcare-problem-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/by-the-numbers-ben-nelsons-amazing-political-suicide-2009-12\">By The Numbers: Ben Nelson&#8217;s Stunning Political Suicide <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/left-wing-anger-over-healthcare-wall-street-and-afghanistan-leads-to-shocking-internal-anger-at-obama-2009-12\">Left-Wing Frustration Over Healthcare, Wall Street, And Afghanistan Leads To Shocking Internal Anger At Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/politico-healthcare-reform-slides-to-february-obama-to-focus-on-new-stimulus-2009-12\">HEALTHCARE REFORM SEEN SLIPPING TO FEBRUARY, Obama To Focus On New Stimulus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/D-oUYNTh91Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at FiveThirtyEight.com Andrew Gelman posts this chart chart plotting per-capital healthcare expenditure against standard of living. It seems to show, without a doubt, that those awesome Western Europeans and East Asians get way more bang for their buck than we do. Except&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t tell us anything about how well the European system would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}